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November 15, 2022

Mentoring for Learner Success: Multiple Pathways to Mentoring Relationships

by Jessie L. Moore and Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler

Mentoring relationships develop in relationship-rich environments (Vandermaas-Peeler and Moore 2022). In higher education contexts, they might evolve from other meaningful relationships like teaching, advising, supervising, and coaching, but they require time to become more reciprocal and mutually beneficial (Mullen and…

November 10, 2022

Teaching Race and Racial Justice

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 11 This episode features the Nancy Chick Article of the Year for the 2021 volume of Teaching and Learning Inquiry (announced at the 2022 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference) and examines course-planning…

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November 8, 2022

Faculty Mentors Start Here! Part 2: Diving Deeper on Setting Up Internships for Success

by CJ Fleming

Welcome back internship mentors! Last time we looked at the initial startup process for internships. Now, I’ll look further into great internship course assignments, your work to setup the student and the site for success, and resources that helped me…

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November 3, 2022

Outcomes of Supervisor and Mentor Support in Internships

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 10 This week’s episode features a recent article from the open access International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning and explores how supervisor and mentor support shape students’ outcomes in internship experiences: Ali, Abdifatah A., Philip Gardner, and Brandy Edmondson….

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November 1, 2022

Faculty Mentors Start Here! Mentoring Undergraduate Internships When You’re New to the Game

by CJ Fleming

Part 1: Initial Set-Up Considerations When I was a new faculty member in 2015, I came out of the gate eager to facilitate internships for my students. Because of my background in clinical psychology, in which practical experiences are essential…

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October 27, 2022

Undergraduate Research and Student Well-Being

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 9 This week’s episode features a recent open-access article from Studies in Higher Education and explores how engaging in authentic, mentored undergraduate research can contribute to student well-being: Walkington, Helen, and Belinda Ommering. 2022. “How Does…

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October 25, 2022

Ableism in Academia: Spotlighting Inclusive Opportunities

by Caroline J. Ketcham

As many of our campuses are all in the rhythm of the semester, let’s explore what is being done or could be done to support inclusive opportunities throughout the many outstanding and engaging events on campus. College campuses are ripe…

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October 20, 2022

Challenges to Providing Effective Feedback

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 8 This week’s episode features a recent article from the open-access journal, Teaching & Learning Inquiry, and explores instructors’ perspectives on challenges to providing effective feedback: Paris, Brit M. 2022. “Instructors’ Perspectives of Challenges and Barriers…

October 18, 2022

How Do You Successfully “Fail” as a Team?

by Deborah O'Connor, Robin Selzer, Leah Stade, Cynthia Bennett

What happens when you put a small team of highly experienced staff working within work-integrated learning in higher education, who have never met, together to form a research team? What do you do when you realise that we all wear…

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October 17, 2022

Rethinking Student Engagement, Post-COVID

by Matt Wittstein

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 2 Dr. Chris Trimby from the University of Delaware wants to rethink how to engage his physiology students as we emerge from COVID. Panelists Derek Bruff, Ellery Ewell, and Jen Uno discuss how…